Tag Archives: Photography

Pictured at Garretstown Beach last Sunday. It was freezing but many people made the most of the dry, crisp weather and enjoyed themselves!

Yet another cartoon effect to try on my photos.
The examples on Creating LineArt from Photos look good, but they’re simple images. Anything with a complex background will probably make it throw a wobbler! Must try later!

This is interesting, especially after reading the TNG article on astronomy this morning where these ideas are used, it’s great to see it described in such detail! Basically, noise in digital cameras isn’t as random as may it may seem, and if you have a calibration image with that noise intact, you can subtract the noise from any photo.
This tutorial explains all that in more detail and could be very useful for cameras that take RAW images, but I verified that jpeg files can’t be manipulated so successfully unfortunately!

No JPEG image can have its noise reduced by the calibration steps described here – the data is too drastically altered by compression to allow dark or bias subtraction to work right.

Not quite, but a fanciful idea. Apples are a good source of vital nourishment, probably worth keeping in mind when we’re stuffing our faces with chocolate and being generally glutonous!

The world’s airports are going to be thronged over the next few days with people returning to their families and homes for the Christmas holidays. Here’s a sight that lots of Cork people will be familiar with!

Only a few more days left and Santa will be flying around the world. Here he is landing at Cork Airport for a quick look around!

Via Thunderbird’s RSS reader…

• Unphotographable: an account of pictures missed
• Couloir.org: Resizing, Fading Slideshow Demo
• Unrelated News
• AutoStitch :: a new dimension in automatic image stitching
• Chicago Photobloggers
• Fair use of photos on blogs… the photographers speak out.
• Infrared Photography With a Digital Camera
• Near Infrared Digital Photography: A Tutorial
• Make your own recursive picture and animation
• The Atget Rephotographic Project similar to Chicago Then & Now
• Celeb Photos on Flickr
• Freefoto.com blog

Too much of a good thing?

Back in the day, I’d get a CD and I’d listen to it. A lot. A CD was a considered purchase – if I was going to make the effort to go to the store and spend my hard earned money on it, it was going to be worth it. In the car, at the gym, at work, at home – I’d listen to it everywhere. The first few listens usually couldn’t be at work, because I’d be listening. Once my brain knew the album, then it could become soundtrack to whatever else I was working on.

I get that feeling all the time these days, although when I look over photographs I took only a few weeks ago I’m quite often pleasantly surprised at how fresh they are!

Right, a quick check shows I have some 24GB of photos. That’s a lot considering they’re all jpg files and not huge raw images!
Anyway, I have my own system for archiving at home but it’ll probably need to be reworked – I’ve another 250MB of photos to copy over from my camera yet no space left! I think a combination of storing original images on DVD, and smaller images on my PC for easy browsing will be most useful.
For more ideas, About.com published this good article describing ways to sort and archive your photos. His point about re-reading 2 year old media is good, and hopefully in 2 years time, larger capacity DVDs will be widely available! 🙂

The very latest issue of The Digital Journalist is out and includes some great material. Go read!